Grand Designs!
Happy New Year and Welcome Back!
We hope that you have all had a happy and restful break.
This half term our topic is 'Grand Designs', where we will be looking closely at buildings, construction and architecture around our local area and beyond.
We have started our new topic by looking at our school logo and discussing why we have a picture of the Whitefield Bridge. Over the coming weeks we will be finding out more about the Whitefield Bridge's construction and history and how we use it today to take us from home to school.
Our core text for Spring 1 is 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'.
Linking to our learning about bridges we have been looking at Vincent Van Gogh's painting 'Langlois Bridge at Arles'
We used viewfinders to look closely at the texture and patterns in the bricks, water and grass and experimented recreating it with different media.
Library Visit
At Whitefield School we LOVE reading so we had a great time when we visited our local library to talk about how we can access books and borrow them for home! We had a great time exploring the library, talking about our favourite authors and sharing stories!
The Lego Experience
Linking with our learning all about bridges and structures we used lego to build our very own house. We planned what it would look like and used different techniques to add different features and make it unique. Once we had done we put them all together to make a street and used it to role play with our friends. Our houses were incredibly creative and all of the teachers were amazed at what we had made!
Whitefield Bridge
For history we went on a local walk to Whitefield bridge and the motorway bridge in Nelson to make comparisons about each one. We learnt when each was built, what they are used for, what materials they are made from and how they are similar and different.
Linking to our art we also then sketched the Whitefield Bridge focusing on texture, patterns and detail like in Vincent Van Gogh's painting of the 'Langlois Bridge'.
We used 'teamwork' to build different bridge structures imitating some features of the motorway and Whitefield bridge
We retold the story of the 'Three Billy Goats Gruff' and then innovated it making changes to the story, rewriting and publishing our own versions.
Crazy about Maths!
We held a maths workshop for all the year 1 parents and carers and welcomed them into the classroom to learn all about the different strategies, resources and equipment we use to teach maths to the children every day. It was wonderful seeing all the children showing parents how they learn and teaching them the different methods. Thank you to everyone that came!
